All Quotes

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Moderation is the secret of survival.
‐‐ Manly Hall

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
‐‐ Joseph Hall

Moderation of oil prices would be very, very welcome. But overall I think we are in a position of stable growth, sustainable growth, and basically with inflation in check.
‐‐ John W. Snow

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
‐‐ David Hackworth

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
‐‐ Nina Easton

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
‐‐ I. M. Pei

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
‐‐ John Shimkus

Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
‐‐ John Ciardi

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
‐‐ Rose Kennedy

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
‐‐ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Modern cars I don't like so much.
‐‐ Amber Heard

Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Modern culture is a tremendous force.
‐‐ John Gresham Machen

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
‐‐ Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

Modern dancing is old fashioned.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.
‐‐ Ross Lovegrove

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
‐‐ Arthur Goldberg

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
‐‐ John Ruskin

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Modern fake fur looks so much like real fur that the moment it leaves the atelier, no one can tell it's not the real thing. And I've struggled with that.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

'Modern Family' has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful.
‐‐ Sarah Hyland

'Modern Family' is one of my favorite shows on television right now. I just think that show is so brilliantly done. It's so fun, I love it. Eric Stonestreet I could just sit and watch forever. They're all great. That would be on the top of my list.
‐‐ Joanna Garcia

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.
‐‐ Richard J. Roberts

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
‐‐ Marc Ribot

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
‐‐ Brit Marling

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
‐‐ Imre Kertesz

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
‐‐ Aubrey McClendon

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.
‐‐ David Lee

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
‐‐ Michael Leunig